Quotes by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Page 2

I think what's great is that, when HBO commit, they go in all guns blazing. They attract the very best set designers, the whole thing.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Blazing
Commit
Hbo
Attract
Guns
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I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Pace
Episode
Network
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I always wanted to be an actor, but I just never told anyone. I had this superstition that if I said it out loud, it wouldn't come true.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Loud
Superstition
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I actually read somewhere that they measured how many calories you burn from watching movies, and horror movies are way, way up the list.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Calories
Burn
Horror Movies
List
Measured
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Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Mud
Accident
Game Of Thrones
Intentionally
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'Game of Thrones' is so unique, and the odds that any of us involved will be in another show like it are very slim, so I'm enjoying the ride.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Odds
Slim
Enjoying
Game Of Thrones
Ride
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I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Annoyed
Eight
Episodes
Fans
Breaking
Breaking Bad
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Most of us have been in that situation where you've been falling in love with somebody who didn't feel the same way. It's not a nice situation.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Falling In Love
Falling
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For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see your father make out with another woman. It's not cool.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Another Woman
Cool Dad Your
Pretend
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There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Bicycle
Ride
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My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Ambition
Work Movies Always
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I don't necessarily enjoy being at the gym. It's something I have to do, more than something I look forward to doing. But it does enable me to do fun things.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Fun Things
Gym
Me Fun Look
Enable
Look Me Fun
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I work a lot abroad and have the most wonderful family and kids, but being away, you do miss out sometimes. I really hope I won't regret the choices in the future.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Choices
Regret
Future Family Work
Abroad
Miss
Family Work Future
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Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a nervous breakdown. But he's just, "Yeah, I know. I know."
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Care
Laughing
Nervous
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Abusive relationships go on and on. You're in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.
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Adapt
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I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.
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People
Prison
Scary
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You have to be sharp when the camera's rolling. I want to be totally unselfconscious, like a child playing. I do as much prep as possible so I can lose myself for those seconds.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Rolling
Seconds
Prep
Sharp
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We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Running
Thinking
Wine
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Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Horrible
Horrible Things
Loss
Things Happen
All Our Lives
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I actually met a cop who worked with street gangs. I wanted to understand what drives someone who deals with very hardened criminals on a daily basis. How do you turn that off when you go home at night?
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Cop
Deals
Hardened
Basis
Daily Basis
Drives
Gangs
Go Home
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I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Choreography
Sells
More Than Anything
Sword
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I love to go into John Varvatos and look at the beautiful leather jackets. They're beautiful and soft. I try them on, and then I look at the price tag and go and pick up a t-shirt. It's just the way I am.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Jackets
Leather
Tag
Love Beautiful Look
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Personally, I think fidelity is important. I don't see any point in being together if you're not being honest, having fun together, and respecting one another. Why would you stay in a relationship otherwise?
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Being Honest
Fidelity
Having Fun
Respecting
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Rehabilitation is such a tiny part of prison life, and I think that has to change. The funny thing is that there's even bi-partisan agreement that it has to change, but the question is how. I don't know how.
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Prison
Thinking
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The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Marathon
Afterwards
Watched
Favorite Movies
Horror Movies
Terrifying
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When I was first told about 'Game of Thrones,' I didn't know the books, anything. So I read the pilot, and when I got the first script, it was clear the story was about these people and families and a constant battle for power.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Battle
Constant
Game Of Thrones
Pilot
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There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Architecture
Danish
Firm
Human Experience
Love Work Space
Love Work Good
Check
Outdoor
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and have been for many, many years. I think it's a choice. I don't think you can generalize, though, and what works for me may not work for other people, but I don't think everybody cheats. We're all different.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Monogamous Relationship
Work Relationship Me
Cheats
Generalize
Monogamous
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I think the core of Jaime Lannister is actually that final line in the pilot when he says, 'The things I do for love.' He might do horrible things - and they are truly, some of them, horrific. There's no excuses. But he does it out of what he sees as a necessity, out of love.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Horrible
Horrible Things
Horrific
Excuses
Pilot
Sees
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Tina Fey's autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It's her life story: it's about how she grows up in New York. There's no obvious reason why I should enjoy this - I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I'm a guy from a small town in Denmark.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Autobiography
Denmark
Fey
Grows
Life Story
Obvious
Small Town
Tina
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What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you'll go, 'Oh my God, horrible', and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Horrible
Perspective
Creature
Change God Time
Game Of Thrones
Oh My God
Pov
Vile
Same Story
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The fact is that, in prison, you can't just go and be locked up and serve your time. That's not an option. You get locked up, and then you're going to go through hell and, if you're lucky, you'll come out somewhat of a human being, but you're probably going to be beyond traumatized, for the rest of your life. That's ridiculous!
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Lucky
Prison
Ridiculous
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The prison system today is so messed up. Some people say, "Some criminals are made in prison," and it's actually true. The numbers and the facts are very clear. Almost 70% re-offend, and they re-offend, more often than not, with a worse crime than what they were put away for. And what's mind-boggling is that it's not in anyone's interests. It's a waste of enormous resources, with money, but also all of these young men and women that have their lives ruined.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Men
People
Today
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Fundamentally, as human beings, we're very, very alike and a lot more alike than we think, but we have a tendency to divide the world into them and us. In prison, when people commit a crime and we put them away, they definitely become "them." We don't want to deal with it because they have chosen to step out of society, so we're going to keep them out. Even if they serve their time, we're going to make sure that, for the rest of their lives, they're going to be branded. I don't know how to do it in a different way, but I think it clearly doesn't work.
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People
Thinking
World
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